This emotional wildlife documentary series will connect you with nature

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This emotional wildlife documentary series will connect you with nature. Tune in to Serengeti on BBC Earth (DStv 184) at 16:00

spoke to John Downer, the Emmy-winning wildlife filmmaker and the series director about the technology used to film animals so up close and personal, the challenges of filming in the Serengeti and why this series is important in terms of how it presents the natural world in a new way for the BBC.

We could move with the animals, travel with them, and we have quite a few different camera systems. We have from ground-level just skimming the ground, we have hovers that could capture an event and keep travelling towards it; we were just bristling with a whole load of camera techniques which we've developed and changed and made more sophisticated.

We were trying to capture these very intimate stories but seeing how they're all trying to do the best for their young ones. So there are no goodies or baddies in– you can root for any of them because they all have needs, they all try to get by and survive. One mother's success is another mother's failure.

He comes from a totally different viewpoint of a TV producer who connects with global audiences. So he was saying"why can't we have a song in natural history?" and there's no real answer for that. And nobody thinks about it. There were times when the flies were so unbearable that you spend all your time trying to get away from them but again you have to film the animals. So we're filming lions covered with flies where even for them the only way to get away from them is to climb up trees. So you get a whole pride up in the trees.

 

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